Alice Walker

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. ↗

— Alice Walker

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. ↗

— Alice Walker

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